Public workers enjoy taxpayer-paid benefits

It would seem with the low-cost health insurance, annual raises and pensions that public-sector workers are looking more like the 1 percent we hear about.

Only about 6 percent of private-sector workers are now in a union. Few full-time private-sector workers have the benefit of a pension. The cost of their health insurance goes up every year, as well as the deductible.

So it seems the public-sector workers enjoy taxpayer-paid benefits that roughly 85 percent in the private sector do not have. Tell me what happens when the property tax is so high that most low- and mid-income people can no longer afford the home they lived in most of their lives. We are a lot closer to the mess in Detroit than many realize. We need tax reform now.